Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-11
MARTINS FERRY.

NJ. &. Mitchell, the gentl leman elected a
member of the Board Of Equalization at
tn, last meeting of Council, has refused to
we, and special meeting TO ill the va
cancy wa hei last night and j. j. Mont
gomeTy elected.
Miss Hette Updegraf is still in very
critica. condition and may not recovery.
She was fast afflicted with typhoid fever
Which has gone TO her lungs, and is caus-
ing very severe trouble.
During the heavy rains on Thursday
Val t sl.eet culvert became cloggcd up
with H.ush ana debris, flooding the street
and washing away part of the pavement
Oh the north side.
The lookup now contains merry party,
including, besides those mentioned in yes
tc.Iay's paper, the indomitable Flicker
Coss.
There 8 much complaint lately about
uy / throwing stones through the street
amps. There az several cases where the
perpetrators Dr sub Outrages are known,
and the proper officers SHOULD dprosecutc the
offenders at once
The recent rams have put our streets in
a miserable condition, and bring out the
fact very forcibly that some one should 90
to work at once repairing them. If it is a
part of the contract with the water works
pipe layer that he repair the streets where
th" aging of the pipe has untitled them
for t..vel, he should he put at it at once;
if not, some one else must make provision
for their repairing.
Jim Neunan, from Long Run, FIr-
gnian by ing. came before Mayor Kel.
ler yesterday, charged with diSorderly
conduct, and was fined so and costs.
Neuman was in high spirits over getting
off 50 easily bu, his happiness was short
lived, for n he stepped outside the office
door, Officer Mester of the bridgeport pO-
lice force carrollcd HIM, and read warrant
issucd by Mayor luukins, charging him
with carrying concealed weapons bleister
took him oil to Bridgeport for a hearing.
Flicker C0ss came before Mayor Keller
Yesterday morning and was fined SO and
costs.
Willie Boots Harrison was fined s. and
costs and Pool Table Slevin - and costs
for thelr little racket on Thursday.
The c. x l.. have twO shifting engines
at work here now.
George Collins, Of Portland, is in charge
Of the Western Union telegraph office, in
place of Manager Van Pelt, who ls in
SomertOn, o, visiting relatives.
4 force of men are at work on Washing
ton street digging a trench for the private
mains of the Wheeling Natural Gas Com
pany. OursCity Council should pass a
resolution requiring the gas company 10
have their bitches filled and the work
completed by september lst a: the out
side, so that the streets may get into some
kind of decent shape before the winter
sets in.
The river is again over the work at the
power house and the men have been com
PEELED to cease operations.
Hiram Frazier, Sr.. is in Toronto, o.,
visiting his sOn-in-law, J. b. Wallace.
The Ohio Valley Beauties, crack base
ball club of this city, will come out in
new suits on next Tuesday. This club
thinks of challenging the Wheeling league
club when they are through their tour OF
defeat.
II is reported that Henry Meyers, the
Clark's addition beer garden man, has or
dered tent and will take a minstrel COM
pany, composed principally OF Hatheway's s
men, ..on the road this summer.
Albert Welsh is in Ironton, o., at the
bedside of his sick mother.
Prof. Chas. J. La Roche, of Bellaire, was
in the city yesterday.
Misses Maude aud Madge Newland, as
sisted by Misses Chel and Sallie Miller,
entertained number of friends last night,